[IGSMAIL-6521] COSPAR Scientific Assembly 2012: call for papers Satellite Dynamics

[Pieter Visser]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to the Call for Papers for
the 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. The meeting will take place 
from 14 to 24 July, 2012, in Mysore, India. For more information, 
please visit "http://www.cospar-assembly.org/".

The assembly will include sessions coordinated by the Panel on 
Satellite Dynamics (PSD). For more details, please click 
consecutively "Detailed Scientific Event Programs", 
"39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly (upcoming event)", 
"Panels", and finally "PSD.1".

For completeness, a description of the session topics is 
also included below. 

Please note that the deadline for submitting abstracts,
10 February 2012, is approaching rapidly. For instructions, please 
click "Abstract Submission and Log-in".

Kind regards on behalf of the COSPAR/PSD organizing committee:

   Pieter Visser, DEOS, Delft Univ. of Techn., The Netherlands.
   Pascal Willis, IPGP, Paris, France.
   Bhola Ishwar, Bihar University, India
   Othon Winter, FEG/UNESP, Brazil
   Heike Bock, AIUB, Switzerland
   Yehia Abdel-Aziz, NRIAG, Egypt
   Renuganth Varatharajoo, Univ. Putra, Malaysia

PS: We remind you that presentations at COSPAR are entitled 
to generate a future submission in Advances in Space Research 
(http://ees.elsevier.com/asr) in the AD section 
(Astrodynamics and Space Debris).

Program abstract
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The aim of the Panel on Satellite Dynamics is to support 
activities related to the detailed description of the 
motion of artificial celestial bodies. This should be 
achieved by improvement of the theories of motion and by 
more sophisticated evaluation of their determining forces. 
Detailed theoretical understanding of the dynamics of 
satellites should be matched with the results of precise 
tracking in order to obtain the most precise knowledge 
possible of the orbit itself and the corresponding orbital
positions.

The scope of the Panel on Satellite Dynamics is 
positioning of a wide range of objects, including Earth 
orbiting satellites for observing geopotential fields such
as GRACE and GOCE, sea and ice level, and navigation 
satellite systems such as GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, Beidou,
or tracking systems such as SLR and DORIS. In 
addition, positioning plays an important role for the 
continuously growing number of today's and future 
planetary and solar system missions. Moreover, formations 
of satellites are being realized and proposed for Earth 
observation and fundamental sciences, that pose very high 
demands on (relative) positioning and orbit and attitude 
control solutions (e.g. micro-propulsion).

Satellite orbit determination requires the availability of 
tracking systems, well established reference frames and 
accurate station coordinate solutions, detailed force and 
satellite models, and high-precision time and frequency 
standards. 

Contributions are solicited covering developments and 
plans for this broad area of positioning and control.